Dress-shield fastener.



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UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 1904.

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CHARLES O. LININDOLL AND LOTTIE O. LININDOLL, OF FORT EDVARD, NEV YORK.

DRESS-SHIELD FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 763,990, dated July 5,1904.

Application led December 2l, 1903. Serial No. 186,063. (No model.)

To (LZ zult/)m t may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES C. LININ- DOLL and LoT'rIE C. LININDoLL, ofFort Edward, Vashington county, New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Dress-Shield Fasteners, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in dress-shield fasteners, thoughthe invention can be used with almost equal facility and advantage forother purposes. It isespecially intended for use or in connection withdressshields; and the object of our invention is to produce a very cheapand simple device which can be easily applied to a dress-shield, whichwhen applied cannot be accidentally displaced, and which can also bequickly and securely attached to the waist or other garment so as tohold the dress-shield securely in place and also in a manner to preventit from wrinkling.

As above remarked, the invention can also be applied and used for otherpurposes.

lith these ends in view our invention consists of a dress-shieldfastener the construction and arrangement of which will be hereinafterdescribed. Y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference refer tosimilar parts throughout both views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the fastening device embodying ourinvention, showing it with both ends open ready for adjustment; and Fig.2 is a longitudinal section of the device, showing it closed and withboth ends fastened to a dress-shield and garment.

One end of the fastener consists of a pair of jaws 10, which forcheapness and convenience are made in a single piece doubled in thecenter, as shown at 11, and constituting at this point a part of ahinge-knuckle and the free ends being bent outward, as shown at 12, soas to enable the jaws to have their meeting edges approach one anotherin such a way as to secure a good grip on the garment to which they areattached. kThis construction also prevents the fastening-sleeve 13 fromslipping off the jaws, and the little bends 12 in the jaws serve toprevent the sleeve from sliding ing jaw or plate 17, which is alsopreferably struck up from a single piece having one eX- tension formedinto the knuckle 16, already referred to, and having at its free edge afastening projection 18, which is pointed and which is of malleablematerial, so that it may be bent easily and doubled over the free edgeof the loop or jaw 15.

In practice the fasteners are preferably applied at the lower edges andopposite parts of a dress-shield, the Lipper edges, comprising the plate17 and loop 15, being attached to the shield, and the lower jaws aresecured to a garment, such as the waist, at a point lbelow the shield.rlhe jaws may be placed over a wrinkle, seam, fold, or other part of thegarment, and the sleeve 13 is pushed down, so as to secure them.

ln attaching the fastener to a shield or other article a hole is madethrough the article. The projection 18 is thrust through the hole. Theparts 15 and 17 are closed together, and then the projection 18 isdoubled over a part of the loop 15, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

From the above description it will be seen that the invention is a verysimple one and it is easily applied, and that when once in position bothits fastening ends are made `eX- ceptionally secure.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isi

1. A fastening device of the kind described, comprising two pairs ofjaws connected at their bases so as to extend in opposite directions,and means for independently fastening both pairs of jaws in closedposition.

2. A 'fastening device of the kind described, comprising a pair oi' jawshaving a sliding' sleeve thereon to lock them, and a second pair ofjaws, pivotally connected to the iirst pair, one of the second pairhaving a loop member and the other having a projection constructed to bedoubled over a part oil the loop member.

3. A fastening device of the kind described, Comprising a pair oi jawsvformed of a single piece bent in the center to make a hingeknuckle, thesaid jaws having outward and inward bends near their free ends, alocking'- sleeve sliding on the jaws, and e second pair oi jaws hingedto the iirst and comprising` a loop and a plate having a malleableprojection I 5

